Wind gusts as high as 60 mph are possible throughout Metro Detroit between Wednesday morning and Wednesday night,the National Weather Service warns.
A "high wind watch" was issued about 11:30 a.m. Tuesday and is in effect for Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties from Wednesday morning through Wednesday evening.
"a high wind watch means there is the potential for a hazardous high wind event," according to the NWS. Westerly wind gusts frequently greater than 50 mph are expected by late Wednesday morning. Gusts near 60 mph are possible."
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Updates with governor declaring state of emergency for Missouri areas affected by Monday night storms.
WENTZVILLE The National Weather Service confirmed Tuesday that it was a weak tornado not straight line winds that hit Wentzville about midnight Monday, injuring two people and damaging homes and businesses.
A tornado also hit Oak Grove, Mo., near Kansas City, where nearly 500 homes and commercial buildings were damaged. Gov. Eric Greitens toured the area Tuesday and declared a state of emergency.
Police thought the damage resulted from straight line winds from Hepperman Road to Continental Drive and East Pearce Boulevard. However, the National Weather Service determined in a preliminary report that it was an EF1 tornado, packing winds up to 88 mph.
The St. Charles County Division of Emergency Management, which is responsible for sounding the outdoor warning sirens, didn"t sound them, for several reasons.
The agency"s operations coordinator, Ina Obenland, said the National Weather Service had not issued a tornado warning and there were no radar indications of a tornado and no sightings of a tornado on the ground by trained spotters, first responders or others.
"We had no indication a tornado was on the ground," Obenland said.
The tornado touched down about 11:51 p.m. Monday and ended about three minutes later, the Weather Service says. As the storm moved east, St. Peters reported some trees down and tree limbs in the road, as well as siding damage at an apartment complex. Farther east, in St. Charles, there was a minimal number of power outages.
The short duration of the tornado, the fact that it was wrapped in rain and the dark may have contributed to the difficulty in spotting it, Obenland said.
The area had been under a tornado watch for much of the night, but never a tornado warning, Obenland said. She said this illustrates why residents should always be aware that a severe thunderstorm can produce a tornado at any time. Rapid onset of a tornado, she said, is one of the characteristics of a severe thunderstorm.
At Wentzville Mobile Manor, a mobile home park off of West Main Street, Sandra Orr and her husband Mike Orr were taken to a hospital after being injured when their mobile home overturned. Police said the injuries were minor.
"It was really loud," Sandra Orr said. "Next thing we knew all h**l broke loose."
The storm also caused a gas leak that led to the evacuation of residents in the mobile home park.
A fifth wheel vehicle turned over at a camper company and several buildings sustained structural damage on Swantnerville Road and at Wentzville Millworks. A tractor-trailer overturned at the Super 8 Motel, and several buildings had roof damage near Continental Drive and East Pitman. In addition, there was minor damage to commercial buildings at West Pearce and Choctaw Drive.
An EF-1 on a scale of tornado strength has winds of 86 mph to 110 mph. By comparison, the tornado in Perryville, Mo., that killed one motorist Feb. 28 and damaged dozens of homes was classified as an EF-4, with winds reaching 180 mph.
The storms that rolled through the St. Louis region on Monday night and early Tuesday also downed trees and power lines in Jefferson County and produced large hail in Macoupin County, according to the National Weather Service.
On the western side of Missouri, at least two tornadoes touched down Monday. Storm Prediction Center meteorologist Ryan Jewell says the first tornado was reported about 7:20 p.m. Monday near Platte City, about 20 miles north of Kansas City. Jewell says radar indications showed the twister continued northeast into Clinton County, toward the town of Lathrop, before it began to dissipate.
A short time later, another tornado touched down east of Kansas City in Jackson County, just south of Interstate 70. Jewell says the tornado hit near Grain Valley and moved east toward Oak Grove. Other severe damage was reported in Smithville, north of Kansas City.
On Tuesday morning, Ameren reported nearly 9,000 electric customers without power across Missouri, including central Missouri, northeast Missouri and and Jefferson County.
About 9,200 were without power throughout Illinois. About half of those were in the Metro East.
The Associated Press and Robert Cohen of the Post-Dispatch contributed to this report.
Snap Inc"s shares tumbled 12 per cent on Tuesday and traders raced to position themselves to cash in on further declines after analysts gave the company a lukewarm reception following its red-hot market debut.
Snap"s US$3.4 billion public listing on Thursday was the hottest technology offering in three years, but its lofty valuation and slowing user growth have raised eyebrows on Wall Street and attracted traders who expect its shares to fall.
Opening up the potential for more volatility, the company"s underwriters have exercised an over-allotment option to buy an additional 30 million shares, bringing the total IPO to 230 million shares, according to two capital markets sources familiar with the deal.
That means Snap"s bankers would no longer be in a position to stabilize its shares by buying them should they fall below their $17 IPO price.
Institutional traders were paying annualized interest rates between 15 per cent and 40 per cent to be among the first to short-sell the stock, according to S3 Partners, a financial analytics firm.
The owner of messaging app Snapchat is not profitable and has warned it may never be.
Much of last week"s frenetic trading in Snap has yet to settle, making it difficult for brokers to estimate how many shares are available to lend to short sellers. But early data suggests brokers are facing a "chaotic" lending environment, with early short interest approaching US$300 million, said S3 Partners Managing Director of Research Ihor Dusaniwsky.
"This is the first couple of days of shorting data to show up, so I"m sure this is going to get bigger quickly," Dusaniwsky said.
Short-sellers borrow and then sell stocks they think will fall in value, hoping to profit by buying the stock back more cheaply later on and then returning it to its owner.
The interest rates brokers charged for Snap shares on Tuesday suggest demand is extremely high and that those borrowing the stock expect its price to fall steeply.
By comparison, brokers lend out shares of Facebook Inc at an annualized rate of less than 1 percent, reflecting an ample supply available for lending and low demand from short sellers, according to data from Astec Analytics.
In its market debut Snap surged 44 per cent from its US$17 initial public offering price to close at US$24.48. Since then it has fallen 22 per cent.
Snap has been heavily traded since its market debut, rolling over the number of shares sold in the IPO more than twice.
Options trading in Snap is expected to start on Friday, once regulatory requirements are met.
At about US$27 billion, Snap"s market capitalization remains a little larger than Kellogg Co and slightly smaller than HP Inc.
So far, no analysts have initiated the stock with a "buy" rating.
Of six analysts who have launched coverage of Snap, four recommend selling and two have neutral ratings, according to Thomson Reuters data.
Globally, shares of most of the 25 largest tech IPOs have languished in their first year on the public market, with 16 notching a hefty decline from their debut day closing price, according to a Reuters analysis of market performance.
National Weather Service Job Shadow National Weather Service Holding Storm Spotter Training In VanBuren
CRAWFORD COUNTY (KFSM) The National Weather Service of Tulsa will be teaching a storm spotter class on Tuesday (March 7).
The class will start at 7 p.m. at the Emergency Operations Center at 1820 Chestnut St. in Van Buren.
Trained storm spotters help the NWS monitor the skies around their communities during severe weather and provide reports to local officials. Storm spotter studentswill learn about storm structure, which helps them identify tornadoes, as well as unusual or extreme weather events.
the class is free and does not require advance registration.
NWS typically offers the storm spotter training sessions during the winter and spring.
CNN"s Angela Rye Reminds Ben Carson That "We Built This Joint for Free"
Ben Carson, dubbed "Low Energy" by now-President Donald J Trump in 2015, is the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
He gave a speech on Monday, somewhat of a debut in the role, in which he told agency employees to be can-do and to exercise as much of their brain as possible.
No, seriously.
He said:
You can"t overload [the brain]. Have you ever heard people say:"Don"t do that or you"ll overload your brain?"
You can"t overload the human brain. If you learned one new fact every second it would take you more than three million years to challenge the capacity of your brain. It can"t be done.
So, we need to concentrate a little less on what we can"t do and a little more on what we can do. After all this is America, this used to be known as the "can-do society", not the "what can you do for me society", but the "can-do society".
That"s what America is about.
A land of dreams and opportunity.
So far, so good. The brain tangent was a little weird, but he"s a neurosurgeon so we"ll get over it.
What he said next, however, has left people outraged.
There were other immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships, worked even longer, even harder for less.
But they too had a dream that one day their sons, daughters, grandsons, granddaughters, great grandsons, great granddaughters, might pursue prosperity and happiness in this land.
People have reacted angrily to the implication that slaves were remunerated in pay comparable to working conditions in the present, rather than victims of colonialist oppression, and that they were in some way pursuing prosperity, rather than being subjected to tyrannical conditions.
Also, immigrants are people who voluntarily move to a different country.
carson also, during his speech, said of the 18th century United States of America...
People could do whatever they wanted as long as what you wanted to do didnt interfere with me and what I wanted to do.
... Apparently ignoring the experience of black people and Native Americans at this time in history.
Carson later clarified his comments in a statement:
Im proud of the courage and perseverance of Black Americans and their incomprehensible struggle from slavery to freedom. Im proud that our ancestors overcame the evil and repression that we know as slavery.
The slave narrative and immigrant narrative are two entirely different experiences. Slaves were ripped from their families and their homes and forced against their will after being sold into slavery by slave traders.
The Immigrants made the choice to come to America. They saw this country as a land of opportunity. In contrast, slaves were forced here against their will and lost all their opportunities. We continue to live with that legacy.
The two experiences should never be intertwined, nor forgotten, as we demand the necessary progress towards an America that"s inclusive and provides access to equal opportunity for all.
We should revel in the fact that although we got here through different routes, we have many things in common now that should unite us in our mission to have a land where there is liberty and justice for all.
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Retired judge Belvin Perry who presided over the Casey Anthony trial now is saying he thinks she did kill her two-year-old daughter Caylee, by accident. USA TODAY NETWORK
In this July 7, 2011 photo, Casey Anthony smiles before the start of her sentencing hearing in Orlando, Fla.(Photo: Joe Burbank, AP)
Casey Anthony, the suspect of a high-profile 2011 murder case involving her daughter, is living in West Palm Beach, Fla., according to reports.
In February, a WPTV camera crew spotted Anthony at a protest against the Donald Trump administration, but she declined to comment.
TMZsurfaced a photo of Anthony picking up her terrier at a groomer in the area last year.
Several community Facebook pages try to keep track of Anthonys whereabouts. Casey Anthony Boycott Information published a timeline from Oct. 2011 to May 9, 2015. The post claims Anthony lives around the Congress and Gateway area in West Palm Beach and lists the address of private detective Patrick J. McKenna on her license. McKenna was a lead investigator in Anthonys defense. He is also known for his work in the OJ Simpson case.
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Several sources report Anthony has been working as a photographer since the start of the year. She registered her company, Case Photography, LLC, as a limited liability companyin West Palm Beach, Inside Edition reports.
Anthony has gone on a few dates with men met through her very small legal circle but in general doesnt have many close relationships, even with family, according to People.
Anthony was accused of killing her daughter Caylee in June 2008.
In 2011, a jury acquitted Anthony of murdering her two-year-old, who"s body was found in woods near the anthony home. recently, theretired florida judge who presided over the Anthony trial said he believes she "may" have accidentally killed her two-year-olddaughter with chloroform.
